This Is Really Sad, Internet!

I'm still so angry at how wasted that plot point was. I wanted all the children to spread the plague and destroy the world. Instead we got ghost emotional development, because of course we did.

This made me sad. :(

Wow, not one of these bands rings a bell to me. Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.

From the very first publicity photo, Jared Leto's Joker seemed like that guy from junior high who wanted to seem super edgy but all he did was wear black and eat things off the ground and make uncouth jokes.

For some reason that picture really bothers me. Is it the neon light? The smug smile? The self-satisfaction inherent in being Gwenyth Paltrow? We'll never know.

So many defensive posts! Who are these fictional people that somehow give a shit about what time these Sassy Moms put their kids to bed, or any number of completely banal things? No one in their right mind would give a shit, but I guess it's to seem like a good parent by defending their choices against a nonexistent…

Those are the kind of pop culture grudges I can get behind.

Hollywood pls I need this. Or Lifetime, even.

Well, now it's ruined for everybody!

I'm not trying to be a jerk, because I did think it was well-directed (the Halloween Haunted House sensibility of the basement blacklight scene was particularly fun), but I'm really not sure that the character's suicide could have been framed in a way that wasn't problematic, given the way the plot hinges on mental…

I didn't see him as sympathetic, either. He was consistent in his complicity with, and participation in, awful bullshit throughout the flashbacks into the show's present.

It's the worst aspects of all of them, too! Why?

I'm a white-passing biracial woman and this happens literally all the time. Frequently, people will specifically be racist about my own culture. Be careful, racist white people: some of us are secretly brown!

I've seen a lot of comments to the effect of "but she sounded trepidatious!" in the video of the call and it's like, well, she's a grown-ass woman who can advocate for herself in her business matters. Just because a person's public image is centered around innocence doesn't mean they're absolved of being an adult and…

The lengths people will go to in order to protect this insanely privileged woman from her plethora of non-problems is actually astounding. Even in this day/age/garbage heap of a mass culture.

Pretty good, worked Saturday, spent yesterday lazing with hubs, eating burgers and enjoying the sunset at the beach. Followed it up with chocolate hazelnut gelato and starting on Stranger Things.

The costumes and set design are a delight.

I was delighted with that character. I turned to my husband and was like "Look! A character on not-original Degrassi that looks like original Degrassi!"

It can be both?